Cyprus Greens urge ‘working committees’ to deal with environment

The Cyprus Green Party has asked that critical environmental issues in the occupied areas are also dealt with through the creation of environmental working committees, as agreed to by President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on March 14.

George Perdikes, Secretary General of the Cyprus Green Party has urged President Christofias in a latter to include of the environmental aspect to the procedures for the application of the 8th of July Agreement.

“Cyprus, as an island, is a unified ecosystem and needs to be treated as such” he said.

Perdikes suggests that experts discuss the need for concrete and practical measures that will enable the joint administration of the island’s natural resources and natural environment. 

The Greens are calling on the working committees to confront a number of serious environmental problems in the occupied areas, such as the pollution of Morphou Bay at Xeros from the abandoned CMC copper mines and acid tanks, the quarry works in Pentadaktylos mountain range that leaves unprotected a number of prehistoric caves, the lack of protection of NATURA 2000 areas, the development plans for the Karpasia area, the management of liquid and solid waste, the illegal building of holiday developments, etc.

Perdikes also wants to see the demolition of the gigantic flag and slogan that is “polluting” the mountain slope of the Kyrenia range.